THE FUTURE OF BROOKLYN: More than 22,000 new apartments will be built in borough before 2019

Developers are expected to build 22,000 new condo and rental apartments in Brooklyn through 2019, permanently transforming the borough's skyline with high-rise towers, according to a new report issued by listings website CityRealty, which also published an artist's renderings of what the new Brooklyn will look like once this slew of projects is complete.

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Most of those apartments will be in Downtown Brooklyn, where 6,400 units are being constructed, and in Williamsburg, where 4,300 units are in the pipeline.

A view north towards Downtown Brooklyn (Artist’s rendering)

By this time next year, the development boom is slated to be in full-swing, with more units in the works than ever before, according to the report. Approximately 5,000 new units are likely to be delivered next year, compared to just 2,700 this year.

The largest scale projects currently getting underway inlcude the 861-unit rental behemoth being developed by AvalonBay at 100 Willoughby St. in Downtown Brooklyn, slated to debut this fall, and Eliot Spitzer's new 856-unit residential complex along Kent Ave. in Williamsburg, which is expected to be completed by 2018.

Plans for the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory on the Williamsburg waterfront also call for 2,300 new apartments.